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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2015 No. 47

Rates

The Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015

Made

10th February 2015

Affirmed by resolution of the Assembly on

2nd March 2015

Coming into operation

1st April 2015

The Department of Finance and Personnel makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 42(1G) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 M1.

Citation and commencementN.I.

1.  This Order may be cited as the Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2015.

Definition of “relevant year”N.I.

2.  For the purposes of the definition of “relevant year” in Article 42(1G) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 the Department of Finance and Personnel hereby specifies the later date of 1st April 2016.

RevocationN.I.

3.  The Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013 M2 is revoked.

Marginal Citations

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 10th February 2015

L.S.

Brian McClure

A senior officer of the

Department of Finance and Personnel

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 42(1F) and (1G) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (“the 1977 Order”) provides that there shall be distinguished in the NAV list as wholly exempt from rates any automatic telling machine which is situated in a rural area during a financial year ending before such date as is specified by an Order made by the Department of Finance and Personnel. 1st April 2016 is specified by this Order.

This Order also revokes the Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013 which specified 1st April 2015 for the purposes of Article 42(1F) and (1G) of the 1977 Order.